This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality and violence cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning o...

In Canada Among Nations, 2007 a team of specialists explores the space that Canada currently occupies in the global policy landscape and considers the bureaucratic players who manage this "occupation." Looking at trade, the environment, development, defence, intellectual property rights, and, the biggest file of all, the United States, they examine the various games involved, from the relationship of the Prime Minister's Office with the foreign policy apparatus to the constraints imposed b...

Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration. Canada's engagement with countries such as the Congo, East Timor, Bosnia, and Afghanistan underlines the commitment of successive Canadian governments to addressing the threats posed to West...

Née en 1936, Francine Laurendeau a connu une longue carrière de journaliste, de réalisatrice et d’animatrice à Radio-Canada. Elle a également collaboré aux pages du quotidien Le Devoir en tant que critique de cinéma durant plusieurs années, ainsi qu’à nombre de revues et magazines consacrés à l’image en mouvement. Cinéphile incomparable, elle a vu son amour du 7e art s’épanouir en pleine Nouvelle Vague, au moment où s’affirmaient en Europe, en Afrique, en Amérique du Sud et au Québec les c...